What if questioning is the answer?  What if questioning could change your life?  Have you ever wondered? ....

I wasn't always a fan of questioning.  I thought a question lead to an answer which lead to stuck-ness and conclusion.  I have waited a long time to find the answer....and then I decided to stop looking for it.  You want to know a secret? There isn't an answer to life!  Yep, I said it. What's the energy an answer creates anyway?  In my world it feels like, "Welp, that's it, I found the answer now I can stop creating and die."  How much fun is that?  I find it funny that so many of us think that's it...that one answer will change it all.    Maybe if we finally get our diet right, we'll have the answer that unlocks it all.  Maybe if we finally get our body right, we'll have the key.  Maybe if we get the right job, we'll make the right amount of money....and then what?  Have you found the answers to your problems?  Has anyone?  Or, the second you think you found it, something else show up to throw you right back into question?

What if it's not about finding the answer?  What if it's about finding joy?  How do you do this?  Question everything...

Questioning to find answers has always bugged me.  Even is school I despised finding answers.  I was the kid that chose to resist math problems and find the most creative approach to finding an answer.  For me it wasn't about the answer, it was about the journey. I never knew why teachers told me I was wrong for it...and for the longest time I thought I was wrong for being that creative. Now I now that was B.S.  Today, I'm still that way.  What if it's not about finding an answer?  What if it's about choice.  Do answers create choice?  Or does questioning create choice?  And in the act of  questioning, then choosing...does that create joy? A bit of mind blower...I know! 

Here are a few of my favorite questions....

• What is this?
• Is it mine?
• What can I do with it? 
• Can I change it?

Really? It's that simple?  Yep. Now the key is...don't look for the ANSWER!  It might take some getting used to. In this reality we're taught to find answers.  Just let the question hang out there unanswered and see what shows up. It might get uncomfortable...that's okay. If finding answers was the ticket...do you think any of us would still be trying to figure out our lives?  Sound rebellious and a little fun, right? I bet you can't do it, and please don't. ;) You might start creating too much fun! 

Months ago I chose to do something totally different during this week between Christmas and the New Year. At first, I thought I was going to take it off, do nothing, be nothing, receive nothing, and fret over my life, my business and our world.  Aren't I cute?  This was what I used to do with my spare time and it always left me feeling horrible, drained, and gross.  It never seemed to work well so I decided to choose something different.

At the time of this decision, I had no idea what was in store, but I knew that if I honored it, something really cool might show up.  How many times have you had a little energetic tickle that you've ignored, that if you stopped ignoring could create the change you've been asking for?  

All week, I've been immersed in the most expansive classes while playing with a few clients. My world has been rocked, turned upside down, flipped around, and totally changed and I've loved every second of it.  I'm sitting here feeling totally out of control in uncomfortable land exploring the energy of new possibilities in my financial reality, body, business, and being the choosing one.

In the past, I've used being comfortable to limit almost every area of my life.  If I'm uncomfortable, I must be out of control and that must be bad.  So cute, right?!?!  I have a feeling I'm not the only one who's been choosing this, so I ask...How much are you avoiding being uncomfortable?  When did you decide uncomfortable was wrong?  What if it isn't?  What if it's the space required for change and possibility?  If you choose to dive deeper into the spaces of being uncomfortable in 2016, would that create something greater in your life and living?  Could that catapult you into the creation of a totally different reality?  Would that be fun for you?

This coming year, I've set some lofty targets...and it's uncomfortable...and I'm learning to be at peace with it.  I now know something really explosive and brilliant is on the other side of it.  I have no idea how I'm going to get where I want to be,  but I know if I just keep asking and choosing...it will lead me to something even greater.  Staying comfortable and stuck in a life you don't love is so last year!  Here's to change, choice, and the evolution of you, of me, of our world...What will you choose in 2016?

There's something really special about the winter solstice in my world. This night, 5 years ago, I was hitching a ride on a snow cat, heading to the top of Snowmass mountain where, to my surprise, my favorite man planned our proposal. Little did he (or I) know it was going to be blowing and snowing like crazy at the top. I couldn't see or hear a word he was saying, so he settled on asking me in the ski patrol hut next to a sparse Charlie Brown Christmas tree. It was beautiful, thoughtful and perfect in every way. My favorite time of year, a place where I feel totally at peace with myself, and a blizzard to boot! How'd I get so lucky? Skiing down together engaged with the brilliant expansiveness of a quiet ski area lite by moonlight was pure magic! Here's to continuing to create our dreams, separate and together.

As I take a moment to look back on my life and the year, I'm so grateful. Everyone thought I was crazy when I took a leap many moons ago, left my "good" job where I made a lot of money for my age, and opened up my very own massage therapy business during the recession. I was told it would be nothing but an up hill battle, I was too young, and that I was crazy. At times, I thought I was too.

I've always been a maverick in life and business and still am today. I knew there was something else possible, I knew if I just kept going, I'd discover something great. I knew deep down in my gut I had what it takes. There were many, many times I thought about giving up, giving in, and going with the norm. I'd go interview for other jobs, just to make sure...if I needed to, I still had what it takes to get one. I'd leave the interview and keep on moving forward with my business. My husband and I downsized all material items in our life and lived in tiny spaces that we could kind of afford. Looking back, I now see what was at play. All of this, which I thought was a great sacrifice at the time, was actually a gift. By downsizing our things, we were opening up space for the creation of our dreams. Everything is the opposite of what it appears to be, nothing is the opposite of what it appears to be!
Today, I'm a successful business owner of a practice filled with clients that light me up every single day. They bring such brilliance to this world, and each and everyone of them is a gift and a huge contribution to me and this world. As I grow, I'm beginning to shift my focus, change my ways, and shaking up viewpoints around soft tissue work, business and life. I'm a creator, a powerhouse with bodies, and a leader of possibility and I'm not stopping now! This reality often tells you not to take risks, to go with the norm, to stay hidden....so, I'll be the exception. I'm here to tell you to stop living timid, go pursue what lights you up, take that leap, use your knowing, and see what else is possible! What would it be like to create your life, instead of just stand it?

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